This particular copy was distributed by "Austin Computer Systems" (with a newly purchased PC) on a 5.25" floppy disk.
USE OF McAFEE ASSOCIATES PROGRAMS
USE OF McAFEE ASSOCIATES PROGRAMS
The McAfee Associates VIRUSCAN series is distributed as shareware
for home use, but must be licensed for use within a business,
corporation, or organization. This includes educational institutions
and government agencies. If you have or suspect a computer virus
infection, you are allowed to use the software for five(5) days free of
charge to isolate and remove the computer virus or suspect computer
virus. We will provide you with assistance if requested.
If you are a shareware distributor you may distribute all software
listed below in the registration form as long as you contact McAfee
Associates for permission first. You must distribute all the
files intact and in unmodified form (duplicate files may be removed)
and may not charge more than a reasonable disk copying fee. You must
obtain updates from our BBS at the number below.
If you are a System Operator and run a publically-accessable BBS
for which there is no usage fee then you may use the software free of
charge on your BBS system--that's our way of saying thanks.
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SYNOPSIS
VIRUSCAN (SCAN) is a virus detection and identification
program for the IBM PC and compatible computers. VIRUSCAN will
search a PC for known computer viruses in memory, the boot sector,
the partition table, and the files of a PC and its disks. VIRUSCAN
can also detect the presence of unknown viruses.
SCAN works by searching the system for instruction sequences
unique to each computer virus, and then reporting their presence
when found. This method works for viruses that VIRUSCAN recognizes, and
for many unknown viruses as well. SCAN can also detect unknown viruses
in files and boot sector by appending validation (CRC) codes to .COM
and .EXE files and then checking the files against their codes for changes,
warning that an infection may have occurred if the file has been modified
in any way. An enhanced validation mode is available that will save and
check information that can be used by CLEAN-UP to restore infected files,
the partition table, or the boot sector of a disk in case of an infection
by an unknown virus. SCAN can also check for new viruses from a user-
supplied list of virus search strings.
VIRUSCAN runs on any PC with 320Kb and DOS version 2.00 or above.
